The chairman of the board of college football coaches in Michigan never thought he’d even consider leaving his school. He was firmly entrenched, his fan base and alumni loved him, and besides, he was a Midwestern guy all the way...

Joe Schmidt introduced two things to the NFL : the middle linebacker position and the ziggy . The former put Schmidt into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the latter became an iconic term for a coach getting fired...

The Red Wings are an injured bunch right now. But even before the players started dropping like flies, the Red Wings weren ’t all that healthy. This is an organization, once revered, that has fallen down a notch or two, overall...

Branch Rickey, the Hall of Fame baseball executive and the granddaddy of the sport’s farm system , said it time and again. “Always trade a player one year too soon, rather than one year too late,” Rickey postulated ...

The year still looms there, like the cheese that stands alone. 1984. It used to be 1968. That was the year that all Tigers fans would reference, sometimes happily, sometimes wistfully, sometimes pessimistically...